Board Motions, Policies, and Procedures
TCR (Transformative Consumer Research) will control a TCR bank account with ACR oversight (approved 2016)
“TCR-related work” check-box will be added to submissions to ACR conferences and designate such work as TCR-related in the conference program (approved 2016)
ACR sponsored international conferences should be required to use ACR’s conference registration system for their conferences unless doing so would pose a substantial burden, in which case, they can request permission from the Board for the use of an independent system that ensures ACR membership status of attendees is verified. (approved 2015)
ACR’s conference cycle is revised to WEST-CENTRAL-EAST-INTERNATIONAL (approved 2015)
Adopt all three recommendations of Rebecca Hamilton’s Task Force on ACR officer roles and responsibilities. Specifically, this involves (a) continue to hire an ACR member as executive director, (b) hire a full time administrative person via a staffing agency, and (c) create a communication committee and membership committee whose chairs will serve as communication and membership managers, respectively. (approved 2015)
Notes: Need to define exactly how these committees will be created, how long they will serve, what their responsibilities will be and how they will report to the Board.
The JACR Policy Board will hold a meeting each year at the ACR conference. (approved 2015)
Each ACR Board member is required to put forward five names of people who can serve on the Board for the open positions each year along with the role(s) they think these people can serve. (approved 2014)
Susan Fournier will edit “ACR ELECTION PROCESS” document to reflect this change. After the Board nominations, the committee will solicit nominations from the broader membership and convene to identify the top candidates per the usual process.
The document should also reflect that individuals who came in second in past elections are allowed and encouraged to stand again.
The election process document will be made publicly available on the ACR website.
The call for nominations will clearly provide a link to the election process document.
Pierre Chandon will chair a taskforce to examine the issue of providing conference travel/registration waiver grants for doctoral students attending ACR. (approved 2014)
Administering the ACR Conference Doctoral Student Travel Grant Program will be the responsibility of the International Perspectives Director.
Conference co-chairs will be formally responsible for updating the conference manual each year and presenting their changes to the Board on the year of the conference. (approved 2014)
The conference budget template prepared by Stacy Wood will serve as the default template for the conference going forward. Conference chairs will retain some flexibility. Co-chairs will submit any requests that are significantly different from the budget template to the Treasurer and Executive Director who will present the items to the Board for approval if they determine it is necessary. (approved 2014)
The Fellows award will be an annual award, with the committee convening annually to consider candidates and to be given to 1-3 people each year, unless the committee explicitly determines no one is qualified. The assumption will be that one person per year will be selected unless exceptional merit among the nominees requires that multiple awards be given. (approved 2014)
The Distinguished Service Award will be given every five years using a process similar to that for the Fellows award except that the criteria for the award will relate to service to the organization and not scholarly record. The award will continue to be given at key 5-year intervals of the conference (e.g., 45th conference, 50th conference in 2019, etc.) (approved 2014)
The Franco Nicosia Award will be awarded to the best competitive paper accepted for presentation at the ACR North American conference whether submitted as a full paper or extended abstract. (approved 2011)
The ACR Early Career Award Committee will be expanded to five members. (approved 2011)
The ACR Early Career Award rules will be changed to require that all nominees provide a nomination letter from someone not on the committee. (approved 2011)
International conference chairs can choose not to print hard copies if they decide not to do so. However, the cost of typesetting the proceedings will still be their responsibility ($50 per attendee or $5000). (approved 2010)
Conference chairs be allowed to hire an employee to provide administrative and clerical support as long as their salary is a part of the conference budget. (approved 2009)
All checks at or above $10,000 be countersigned by the Treasurer and Executive Director. Under exceptional circumstances or emergencies, written permission of the second party (Treasurer or Executive Director) can substitute for the countersigning. (approved 2008)
The ACR President and Executive Director should attempt to attend all ACR sponsored conferences and be subsidized for attendance at the conferences outside USA and Canada if necessary. (approved 2007)
The Board reiterated the decision to move international conferences to a 3-year rotation with the European, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America conferences. (approved 2006)
Continue publishing the proceedings even if it means ACR absorbs a loss on the publication. (approved 2006)
ACR will keep two archival copies of all previous publications and the rest of the inventory will be recycled. (approved 2004)
No limit will be given to the number of times a person can appear on the conference program however a person can only present twice. (approved 2002)
ACR’s representatives to the Journal of Consumer Research’s Policy Board will serve no more than two consecutive terms. (approved 2002)